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MOSCOW / WAM Dr Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to the Russian Federation, has met with Hassan Hakimov, Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, and Adam Cherchigov, Director-General of the Sheikh Zayed Foundation, at the UAE Embassy in Moscow. During the meeting, the sides discussed the strong bilateral ties between their countries and ways of strengthening them to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, (Seha) announced the opening of a new Covid-19 drive-through services center in Al Manhal area in Abu Dhabi. The new center is composed of 4 tracks; 1 for vaccination and 3 for nose swab with a capacity of 100 vaccinations and 600 nose swabs and laser tests per day. The center ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM To support the growth of the environmental goods and services (EGS) sector, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) is leading a project that aims to assess the state of play in the local EGS industry. The EGS Project will define and map the sector, assess its overall economic value, and develop actionable enabling policies ...

SHARJAH / WAM Kalimat Foundation, a UAE-based global non-profit organisation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK-based charity, Book Aid International (BAI), under which both entities will partner to support and enrich the learning resources of refugees and forcibly displaced children in Africa and the Middle East (ME). The agreement formalising the partnership was signed recently, on the sidelines ...

Bloomberg Central London could lose as many as 835,000 jobs in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, with employees in service industries increasingly able to work remotely and flexibly, according to research by a consulting firm. An analysis of London’s labour market data by Advanced Workplace Associates, a consultancy based in the UK capital, showed that about 41% of people ...

Bloomberg Confidence in the euro-area economy improved to the highest level in more than two decades in June as a reopening of shops, restaurants and other services propelled the region’s recovery from the pandemic crisis. A European Commission sentiment index increased to 117.9, exceeding almost all estimates in a Bloomberg survey. The gain was driven by surging optimism in services, ...

Bloomberg German joblessness slid for a second straight month in June, signaling a robust recovery as falling coronavirus infections allow shops, restaurants and cultural venues to reopen. The decline of 38,000 was almost twice as high as expectations, and put total number of unemployed at 2.69 million. The unemployment rate was 5.9%, matching previous month, which was revised lower. Germany ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink is on track to beam broadband internet everywhere in the world except the polar regions by August. Space Exploration Technologies Corp has launched more than 1,500 satellites so far and has Starlink operations in about a dozen countries, Musk said during a presentation at the Mobile World Congress conference. That’s costing a lot. SpaceX’s ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government plans to end a ban on firing workers in manufacturing and construction sectors, removing protections that have been in place since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in a sign of Italy’s recovery. The move threatens to open a rift with some left-leaning parties in Draghi’s coalition. Unions called on the government to extend ...

Bloomberg Americans are enjoying outsized pay boosts this year from desperate employers, but the raises are failing to keep pace with surging prices for everyday goods. US wages likely posted a third strong monthly gain to fuel a 3.6% increase in June from a year earlier, according to economists’ forecasts ahead of the Labour Department’s jobs report. Companies including FedEx ...